Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-09-27
TELECRAPHIC SUMMARY.
An Epitsns Of the Principal Events NOW
Attracting Public Interest

Police officer Robinson, " oniN'7V'
was shot and. killed by Chinaman.
DR.. w. X. Perkins was killed by
Indians in Sierra county, New
Mexico.
Fifteen persons were drowned by the
capsizing of yacht IN the Engi'SN
Channel
One person was killed and several
others Injured by railroad accident
near Alliance, o.
Z. J. Baldwin's we'll known race
horse Lucky B. died in New York oil
paralysis Of the brain.
Immigrants from Hamburg to San
Francisco, by the southern route, get
through for $24 each.
John Albeic, a well-to-do citizen OF
/ Omaha, shot his wife and then killed
himself. The cause is said 20 have
been Jealousy.
The money in circulation in the
United States has been increased IN
the past twelve months $700OO,0O0
from imports and coinage.
| Charleston, S. G., has been rebuilt.
Since the earthquake over 6oOO build,
ings have been rebuilt or repaired, and
2Sl new ones erected at total cost oil
| "a, 100000.
/ Dick Buckalea, of Chambers county,
Ind, beat his wife, and sheriff's posse
went to arrest him. He killed and
desperately wounded three others be-
fore he was himself killed.
i The schooner Niagara was foundered
on Lake Superior, and her crew OF ten
men lost. 1t is also feared that the
schooner David Bows, with II crew OF
fsteen, suffered the same fate.
There was riot at tobacco factory
in Pressburg, Spain, growing out OF a
strike of 300 female employees. The
strikers expelled the police from the
factory and fortified the building.
Troops were summoned to dislodge
them.
The ship Falls OF Bruar, OF Glasgow,
/, bound from Hamburg to Calcutta,
with cargo of salt, foundered off Var
mouth, the cargo having shifted. Five
of the crew were rescued, and twenty
four were drowned, most of whom
were Germans and Swedes.
Thomas Kelly, Michael Grove and
!, a man named Walters were buried
alive in the new aqueduct at North
. Yonkers, New York. The earth above
caved in on them. They are under
, ITO feet of earth and there is no pos
sible chance of their having escaped
instant death.
: Information comes from Honolulu
by the steamer Alameda that on one
: of the outlying islands of the Sandwich
! group there lately occurred massacre
: of three boatmen belonging to the
schooner Mary Anderson, under ex-
| ceptionally brutal circumstances. The
boatmen were first severely wounded
a to render them helpless, and tied
hands and feet and taken in canoes
! over to another island and sold fol-
pigs. The purchasers then finished
them, and had cannibal feast ON the
bodies.
| DIR. Pancoast, who some time age
organized a company to search for the
4 hidden treasure of the privateer De
brakk, which is supposed to have sunk
off Cape Henlopen in 1898, is very en-
I thusiastic over the enterprise. He
says: after many vicissitunes
, think we have located the Debrakk
, about five-eights of mile from tn,
breakwater, We explored the bottom
. for about a mile square, and at las
found a mound. When we sank oul
: probing iron into the mound we me-
resistance about two feet below the
sand. Then our rod suddenly plunged
through something which felt like
: rotton deck. If the vessel be the De
brakk, and | have no doubt it is, w,
i will get the treasure out in a shor
? time. There is at least 100000
: there"
The mystery OF the whaler Anne
= thyst, which has not been seen since
i September, 1885, and about which Sc
: many tales have been told, appears t.
be clearing up. The mate of the Ange
i Dolly, one of the sealers seized by tn,
Richard Rush says when he was cruis
; ing about the northern islands of tn,
Choumagin group the hull of vesse
was sighted high up on the beach. |
; was found she was the Amethyst ant
: that she was broken in two. Tive
boats were swung from the davits, bu
c every thing was dc serted and the cabjr
i was in confusion. There was nothins
: to indicate the fate of the crew, bu
+ hopes are entertained that some O
them may be alive. The Amethys
o was in command of P. H. Cooty, ant
Moses Walker was first mate. Their,
!. were forty four persons on board O
her.
d A theater at Exeter, a Londor
S suburb, took fire during the perform
: ance OF " Romany Rye and 40 per
: sons were burned to death. The vic
r TINS were mostly working people. A.
t soon as the flames were put out larg,
/. force began searching for bodies Tn,
: stairway leading to the gallery wa,
@ literally packed with bodies, while a
p the head Of the stairs there were score
OF others piled one on top of another
The unfortunate victims had rushed I,
the door when the alarm was given
but found the stairway blocked an,
escape cut off. In a short time IN,
fiimes had reached them and the,
i. suffered horrible death. There wer
4 pitiful scenes in the vicinity of III,
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